Happy Birthday Darling Zi! =)

A dedication to:

Tai Huay Zi:

my darling =)

Sweet natured, gentle,

hardworking, determined, caring,

thoughtful, beautiful on the inside and outside ;)

and

she LOVES her poodle, Riam Riam.

Her poodle is super cute...!!!

I can't wait to go to KB and meet her!!!!!

=)

Ah Zi... we've been through so much together.

Looking back, here are a few memorable events:

1. Our 'celebration day' after the exams

-which was awesome =)

The crazy shopping.... >.< =)..

2. Going to Aurora together...

3. The Law Ball where she went as

a Bunny and I went as an angel =)

And yeah, 4. getting our nails done!!!

That was crazyyyyyyy.

5. Enduring the final year of UOL together...

You seriously brightened up my days in Univeristy.

You are a real blessing, Zi =)

Speaking of studying:

6. Doing the Japanese Schoolgirl Series together.

*click to view the series

It was a really fun project.

I enjoyed every moment =).

I love this picture of you babe =)

The stress we endured!!!

Ohhh and

7. White Day ^^

plus

8. fan dancing, heee =)

9. Jap Cafe sprees

11. Being naturally cute =p

12. learning to fly without wings =)

Of course....

how can I forget

13. our lovely photoshoot =)

and 14. the everyday that I get to

spend with you as your bestie =)

I love you babe =)

Happy Birthday!

Don't worry about the future...

whatever comes, I'll be here with you =).

We'll go through it together...

..we can. =)

♥,sarahkate

Advertorial: Report on the Anplas Event

-Advertorial-

Hi everyone!

In April I advertised

the Anplas Event: Say YES to Anplas Bag!

that was held on the 25th of April 2009

in Cineleisure and here

is my report on it!

=)

This is the Anplas booth, where they were

giving out free Anplas reusable bags and limited edition

Anplas T-shirts (for those who joined the competition).

Basically,

the Anplas-Bag concept is built on

the fact that plastic bags are

a threat to our environment

and therefore if they are replaced

with reusable Anplas Bags,

pollution stemming from plastic bags

would be greatly reduced.

The Anplas Team - all prepped and ready for the big day!

I was also ready to support the

environmental-friendly event,

that's why I came dressed in green! :D

As the team was getting ready

I took some pictures with the Anplas Banner =).

Right from the start of the event,

people were streaming in to find out

more about this environmental friendly product.

One of the team members for the day,

William, was going around and explaining the

Anplas-Bag concept to people passing by.

Seeing the team working hard to play their part,

I wanted to join in as well to

tell people about how they can help

stop pollution stemming from plastic bags.

The Director of Anplas-Bag, Mr Sean Leong

gave me the Anplas T-shirt and the bag for being

an Anplas Ambassador! =)

Great! Now I could help them promote

the environmental benefits of the Anplas Bag.

Mr Sean Leong, Mua, and my friend Gadiy.

I swiftly went to change

into the Anplas shirt!!! =)

Go, Anplas! =)

Sarah Kate, Sean, Sandra & Silliam

*opps I mean William =p

And here I am signing the Anplas greenboard =)

There was a good response

from the crowd and by noon it was PACKED!!!

*

We stopped for some ice-cream,

and Sandra and William took out the papers to read.
WOW! That's Sean in the News!

Read about it here.

The Anplas Model and I =)

*

It was a good green day.

More to come soon!

=)

♥, sarahkate

Umai-Ya Japanese Restaurant

NEWS: the epicurean is back at the posting desk!

everyone shout YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Because delicious news is coming your way.

♥By royal order of the epicurean herself; sk.

Yes, I've been away and I am truly sorry for the hiatus.

I've been wanting to post about Umai-Ya for the longest time,

but until tonight I have not had the privilege of doing so.

Here it is, Umai-Ya located in Uptown, Damansara.

I went there some time back for the Buffet lunch

thanks to my epicurean buddy Danny

who invited Esther and I.

It was seriously a blast-

we tucked in to awesome food and had the pleasure

of meeting and dining with some lovely people.

Jo, Lam JC, and Shing Yee=).

What's so awesome about the buffet?

Firstly, the food is not spread out for you like

in normal buffets but rather, you order what you want.

I like that.

"Sumimasen... can we have 30 slices of salmon,

some maguro, shiro maguro, and tako..?

Also, the spider roll, the beek yakkiniku, dragon roll,

beef tepanyaki....greentea ice-cream.."

And the food came.

Here's some of what we ate

Shing Yee: "The salmon is soooo good, I'm going to cry!!!"

JC: Me too!

=)

Danny New =)

Thanks for inviting EK and I man!

=)

Oh boy was the salmon good.

The Salmon was so fresh and it was cut so nice and thick!

I rarely find Salmon this fresh during a Jap buffet.

And i was surprised they gave us the Salmon Belly cut!

We ordered ALOT of sashimi.....

...there was so much i ate it with the beef kebab!

We loved it.

esther kang & sarah kate

ek & sk

=)

I ♥ miso soup =)

And the green tea ice-cream was FANTASTIC!

I give it 8/10. I ♥ it!!!!!!

Overall, the:-

salmon, greentea ice-cream and beef teppanyaki was ♥.

The maki was not bad as well.

The only unsatisfactory item was the maguro (fresh red tuna)

which i found to be less than fresh. I am very particular

about maguro being very fresh.

Nonetheless, the shiro maguro (butter tuna) was fresh

so your got top marks for that. ♥

If you ♥ salmon sashimi & green tea ice-cream

i will strongly recommend Umai-Ya.

=)

Shing Yee with the bill

It's so nice to see everything charged as 0.

=D

24 green tea ice-cream???

It was that good.

=)

Some photos of Shing, JC, Ek and myself after.

Arigato gozaimas, udeshides... =)

♥, sarahkate

Made to Love Concert

Brought to you by the young people of Glad Tidings Youth Church,
Made2Love is a concert where songs and dance are incorporated to

get you groovin and movin!
Plus a little something else, of course. ;)

So come over to:

Glad Tidings PJ,
Friday, 26th June 2009
8.26pm
To find out more!

-the team getting prepped for the big night

With just 2 days to go,

I am getting all excited.

I can't wait for M2L!

It's going to be awesome.

=)

♥, sarahkate

Happy Birthday Fergus!

You have been a great help
and blessing to me.
You may not realize it,
but the little things that you do
really go a long way.



Thank you =).


*
Fergus writes at GCB.

*a note from: sk

Sean's Birthday luncheon by Chef SK =)

Hey everyone!

I'm back at the posting desk!

I'm sorry I've been away.

I've been trying to balance

quite a few things, and my poor blog

has been rather neglected.

Well, sarahkate's notebook is back

and I'm still writing along the same lines:

cuisine, couture, & compositions

BUT my notebook is special this season:

Its the summer edition =)

As you already know,

I changed my banner to this =).

In fact, a made a series of

sarahkate's summer notebook banners

and I'll change them from time to time

throughout summer 09 =).

I've written quite a bit on couture and compositions,

but I must admit I've neglected writing on cuisine.

Voila!

Here's a take on cuisine,

summer edition,

about cooking with sarahkate. =)

This summer luncheon came about by me

suggesting we do something different for Sean's Birthday.

It was always my intention to entertain the gang

at the dining table with a hearty meal

hence this was a great opportunity.

This is the place card I made for Sean =)

Zizi and I made these =)

If you're wondering what the're for,

they function to indicate the

place of a person at the table.

Prim and proper,

formal and elaborate, I know.

I like. =)

Here's a visual record of the cuisine

that was served to SK's guests.

Starters:-

*

French Gourmet Soup

Garlic Bread

Fruit Salad

Cold potato salad with prawns and dill

Prawn cracker delight (innovation by sk)

Orange soda

*

This is the French Chicken and leek cream soup.

I added another dollop of cream, shaped it into a heart &

ground some fresh black and white pepper before serving.

On top is the Prawn cracker delight: something I dreamed up :D

and below is a portion of the fruit salad.

Here are a few pictures of the

Cold Potato Salad with Prawns:

made specially for the birthday boy-

see what the name cards are for? =)

I ♥ cold water prawns with potato salad.

OISHII! =)

Here's what the table looks like with all the starters.

Here's the transition from starters to main course:

The soup, corn & Roast Potatoes are added in.

Main Course:-

*

Roast Potatoes

Corn

Roasted Lamb Chop

Roasted Chicken

Oven grilled Cherry tomatoes

*

Here's the oven grilled cherry tomatoes

Everyone is served their main course individually

I wasn't happy with my lamb but the chicken was done perfectly. =)

That's me serving the Birthday Boy =)

For Dessert, we had Lemon Cheese Cake from SR.

I actually wanted to bake a cake

(chocolate butter cake with chocolate chunks) but

I really could not manage with all the food I was cooking.

Hence, Jeremy kindly helped us to buy a cake =).

Happy Birthday!

The Anplas Model =p

The prim and proper side of us

&

The crazy side of us

PUSH his head into the cake!

Our very on newspaper model

trying on his bday present from us:

A jacket from Pull & Bear.

Happy Birthday, Sean Leong Hoong Xi!

♥, sarahkate

A summer's day Photoshoot: Part 1

sarahkateproductions

in collaboration with Zstudios

proudly presents:

A summer's day

One summer day,

Sarah Kate went to the park with

her bestfriend Zizi.

It was going to be a wonderful day

of relaxing outdoors.

"Reading some poems would be lovely...."

"Far from the shore, did the seeker swiftly run

fading in the blend of golden sea and sun.

As the sun dipped into the sea , a shadow did rise

racing to the heavens, much to Fuvugen's surprise."

Realms of Light, by sarahkate

It's picnic time!

Summer soda, anyone?

I like this photo that I took of Zi =)

To view the rest of her pictures, click here.

Between the summer grass and sky so blue

I weave some thoughts and pen them down for you.

I love this picture. Thank you, Z. =)

*

Here's a candid shot of moi.

I'm about to pick up something here. :D

For the longest time,

I've always loved parasols. =)

It shows, doesn't it? ^^

I decided then to do a fun stretch.

:)

After all that activity,

It is time to take a good summer nap. =)

I like how the bow joins and connects to the box in the picture below.

After three moons she stirred from the dream,

and rose to the surface.....to be redeemed.

by sarahkate09

Here's a collage of some of my favourite pictures =)

Stay tuned for Part 2!

=)

love,

sarahkate

..~*~..

CREDITS

PHOTOGRAPHY

All photographs of SARAHKATE

were taken by TAIZIZI

&

All photographs of TAIZIZI

were taken by SARAHKATE

VENUE

KLCC PARK

Day out with Zi -feat. Pasta Zanmai, 1u

As usual, my posts are overdue again.

Too many thing have been happening since

my last paper was over on Friday.

As Zi says, I seriously have not rested since

the 'nosleep' act we pulled during the exams.

I've started work at rwl, so at times I may be busy

hence I may be unable to attend to you. Gomenasai.

Here's my celebration day out with Zi.

We went to 1u, Damansara Perdana (Aurora),

Fullhouse: NXZ, Sunway Pyramid, and concluded our

outing with dinner at the Imperial China Restaurant.

Here's some pictures of us at Pasta Zanmai, 1u.

would you like some hot oocha? =)

Zi with her food: Unagi Pasta in wafu sauce.

delicious.

She ordered the set,

so it comes with salad and miso soup.

I ordered the hotatae mentai pizza:

Scallop and mushroom pizza.

Loved it.

I will be back for this!

Itadakimas! Oishii! =)

After a good lunch we continued with our shopping.

But it didn't stop there.

Aurora Boutique in DP was calling out to us!

Some pictures of us:

love this one =)

We both bought abcdefg at Aurora.

They will be featured soon in subsequent posts =)

After our trip to Aurora we headed to NXZ to

look for the frilly white umbrellas we once saw at Fullhouse

(for the photoshoot -I'll post on that next! )

but unfortunately they ran out of stock =(

Zi wanted to take a picture with Minnie.

Like her shoes? :D

And here's moi.

After NZX we went to Pyramid

to buy Zi's Charles & Keith Bag and for my mp3 player.

This was followed by a very eventful dinner. ;)

In the end, this is what we purchased:

Who do you think shopped more?

Z or SK? *grin*

love,

sk

Happy Birthday Athalia Kim Lee!

To my eldest sister:

thank you for being
the missing piece in 2008.

Piecing all the pieces together and parts of our life
forms something lasting and beautiful, you know.
I'm glad to share that with you. =)

We may have different colours, patterns,
shades of our life -but together we are beautiful.


May today be sweet like the morning dawn
that all your cares and worries may be gone.
+ Zeph 3.17

Happy Birthday =)

Timothy, Sarah Kate, Athalia Kim, Elizabeth Kay




much love,
sarahkate

Couture by sk: Pussybow shirt

The bow is back,
for sk at least.
*click here*

I've always been big on ribbons,
(those who knew me during the
Taylor's days would know very well, =p)
so Pussybow shirts are just.. =)

*I choose to look away.. but that's just for today.
Here's one way to wear a pussybow shirt.
*This was taken some months back during
our Law Faculty trip to BURSA.
I love this flower hair tie/ brooch - from Forever21.

And I miss my long hair =(

More from me soon =)

love,
sarahkatelee